Re: Why Should I Use Zend Optimizer?

On Monday 27 March 2006 12:40, Richard Davey wrote: > On 27 Mar 2006, at 19:10, ray.hauge@americanstudentloan.com wrote: > >> In short, Zend Optimise has *nothing* at all to do with 'making dumb > >> programmers code better' I'm afraid. > > > > I'm not completely sure on this, and if it is true I don't have the > > links, but I think it does do one thing to "make your code better". > > That is to use pre-increments wherever possible, since the > > post-increment requires the parser to store the value first then > > increment it (or something to that effect). But even then it's really > > only saving you milliseconds of processing time, which would only make > > a beneficial improvement on an enterprise system (million-plus hits). > > Sorry I should have been more explicit - I meant it won't re-write > your actual source code for you, which I believe is what the OP > thought it was supposed to do (if only!) > > Cheers, > > Rich > -- > http://www.corephp.co.uk > Zend Certified Engineer > PHP Development Services Still right on with the pre-compiling though ;) I find that the Optimizer has value. If you wanted to cache on top of that you could probably speed it up even further with cached responses (APC or I think Zend has one too) -- Ray Hauge Programmer/Systems Administrator American Student Loan Services www.americanstudentloan.com 1.800.575.1099